Critique by Plamena Dimitrova-Racheva 
for
INSPIRING SPACES Exhibition at Varna City Art Gallery 2015

Review on INSPIRING SPACES Exhibition at Varna City Art Gallery,

July - August 2015

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Art in our century is gasping for tendernessAbstract art helps in seeing the invisible,To discern the infinite from the defined.Arshile GorkyAlexander Kaprichev s exhibition comprises artwork created during his stay in England between1999 and 2005 which is now displayed in Varna for the first time.During that period the artist created purely abstract and Informel paintings.They are predominantly large canvases, saturated with the energy of the liberated space, light andrhythm of the brush strokes, in a plastic language which in style is close to the Tachism and thesweeping gestural brushwork of Georges Mathieu and Hans Hartung, as well as the automation ofAndre Masson.His paintings are discernible with their complex structure, with the clearly defined geometry of thelines and shapes which interrelate with the colour schemes. That is also the principle in musiccompositions to harmonise sound, rhythm and volume.His abstractions convey certain associations with the figurative or the landscape, yet focusing onthe intensity applied in covering the canvas by masterly painted outlines, lines and colour splashes.They are like vibrating squares and circles, parallel lines, optical and static shapes turning intosigns and symbols.The artist's concept is visually built up by virtual constructions of combined abstract andgeometrical elements, thus expressing his ever sensitive spiritual energies in colour.We encounter intellectually charged and philosophically thought over painting which resounds inthe liberated pictorial space of the canvas, thus reflecting the creative energy of the artist.

 

Plamena Dimitrova-Racheva

Art critic, Director of Varna City Art Gallery

26 July 2015